How did you name your homestead?

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I have just acquired some acreage and a amall house in the Ozarks of Missouri, and it needs a name. If your place has a name, how did you decide what to call it?

-- Rose (open_rose@hotmail.com), February 23, 2002

Answers

"Beyond Deliverance".

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 23, 2002.

We call our 5 acre place Breezy Hollow. Our daughter came up with this almost 15 years ago when we moved out here. The people we bought it from pointed out to us that if you have the front door open and the back door open at the same time you will almost always get a nice breeze blowing through the house. It was true and thus the name Breezy Hollow originated. We called our homeschool Breezy Hollow Christian School. When the UPS driver delivered our load of books that first summer he said "Is this a school?" We had to laugh. The place was a real fixer-upper and it didn't look like much of anything let alone a school.

-- Nancy (nannyb@huntel.net), February 23, 2002.

Actually my city slicker son named our farm! We have a hill beyond our homestead and it's really beautiful. It even has an old cemetery on it. The trees are pretty all year around. Anyway, he said it should be called "Gloryhill Farm"!

-- Ardie/WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), February 23, 2002.

C & C Boer Goats Farm. Named for Celia and Charles Steen (thats Us!!)

God Bless.

C & C

-- Charles Steen (xbeeman412@aol.com), February 23, 2002.


We thought about "Raging Thunder Farm" since that is what was happening when our first batch of rabbits was born. We don't actually have our own place, so we are waiting before making our name official. The place we buy may ask for a different name:o)

I like the British idea of naming your home and including it as part of your address.

-- Cathy N. (homekeeper86@sympatico.ca), February 23, 2002.



We call ours Funny Crow Farm because one day the big rooster was crowing, the banty rooster was crowing, and then, the little quails began crowing, which is a very funny crow let me tell you, especially "next" to the chickens'. It just stuck.

-- Katie (homesteader@accessnevada.com), February 23, 2002.

We raise pastured poultry, turkeys, grass fed beef, dairy goats, dairy cow, etc. We wanted people to know that we loved the Lord as well. So, my husband came up with Amazing Graze Farm. We liked it immediatly and so adopted it!!

-- Mike & Marci (NE Ohio) (TheBlubaughs@amazinggrazefarm.com), February 23, 2002.

My first place was named Limping Goose Farm, after one of my geese. This place is Windfire Farm after a fire we had a few springs ago while buning off the grass for my garden. The wind took the fire over the hill towards the woods. I had to call 911 and the DNR came with a pumper truck and backpacks of water. We were up all night. The DNR had to call in a tree cutter to cut down two trees that were like blow torches, in the dark at midnight. A very scary experience! But I think a wonderful name with an origin not easily forgotten.

-- Susan in Minnesota (nanaboo@paulbunyan.net), February 23, 2002.

Ours is called Dorema Farm. I was at a Bible study and we were doing the first chapter of James. Dorema was the greek word for a perfect gift from God. As soon as I heard it, I knew it was the word I had been looking for.... Tana Mc

-- Tana Mc (mcfarm@totelcsi.net), February 23, 2002.

Like the email address its called bluewaterfarm. Seems the high concentration of lime in the water gives the creeks and ponds a startling blue color. First thing every one notices when they look off the cliff and down into the creek is the strange blue color of the water.

-- David in North Al. (bluewaterfarm@mindspring.com), February 23, 2002.


The name of our little piece of land is "Morning by Morning Farm". The name is taken from the hymn, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, - "morning by morning new mercies I see, all I have needed Thy hand hath provided, great is Thy faithfulness..."

It also reflects the fact that every morning we get up and start a new day doing all that is necessary to live the way we like to live. Every day is a gift.

-- kathy in NE Ohio (kathy0801@msn.com), February 23, 2002.


I'm calling mine DAVELI Acres in honor of my children, DAVid and ELIzabeth. Once the sign is done I wonder how long it'll be until someone shows up and asks for "Mr. Daveli." ;o)

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), February 24, 2002.

Our main "crop" is a herd of very primitive looking horses which were the forerunner to many of our modern horses. We named our ranch Genesis Equines, and each horse has a Biblical or Hebrew name. When visitors come to our place they always ask about how we came up with the name and why the horses have the names they do, which gives us an opportunity to share what the Lord has done for us.

-- Lenette in OR (kigervixen@webtv.net), February 24, 2002.

I named my little place "Fertile Knoll Terrace" because of the fertile terrace that takes up about half of the property, the high yields of my BISF gardens and the fact it sits 20 ft higher than the surrounding properties. My other favorite name for it is "Paid Off" :>)

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), February 24, 2002.

The farm was called Chicken Branch Farm when we bought it, named for the wannabe creek that runs along the one side. But it just didn't do anything for us. When we were trying to decide on a name, we made a list of all the possibilities we could come up with as a family. We had a list of about thirty names, but only one said it all for all of us......Simple Pleasures Farm. It just fit with the way we wanted to live.

-- Fran (on MD's Eastern Shore) (simpleplesurzfrm@dmv.com), February 24, 2002.


Ours was named after our Grandmothers. My husband and I each had only one set of grandparents living when we were young. They both taught us about gardening, farming, animals, frugal living, canning, all the homestead skills needed, almost. Their names were Agusta and Bernice hence the name BER-Gust farms.

-- Joanie (ber-gust@prodigy.net), February 24, 2002.

We call ours Gods Homestead. We pulled up to look at it..everything run down, house not lived in by humans for thirteen years..Everyone said we could not live in the house..the place was just too run down. We have lived in it for three years..the house has treated us well, we put no money in it to live here. The animals have done well and everytime we turn around, we are being blessed living here.

What we saw when we looked at the homestead .. is what it is slowly turning into..and with Gods grace and blessings..we will be good tenants for Him!

-- Sher in se Iowa (riverdobbers@webtv.net), February 25, 2002.


We call ours Breaking Winds Farm. My son named it that. He was teasing his little sister and called her princess burp and fart.She called him prince flatulence.The dog had a little probem with gas that day too. Hence the name " Breaking Winds Farm "

-- Bonnie (None@this time.com), February 26, 2002.

We haven't officially named ours yet, even after five years! But after getting horses during the last 18 months and acquiring a stock trailer, we thought we should start considering one. So far, our only suggestion has been "Down Home Acres" because we do so much homey stuff.

-- Lisa in WI (llehman16nospam@hotmail.com), February 26, 2002.

We call our farm "White House Farms" because of our white 100+ year old farmhouse. One of the boys named it and it just stuck. I hope to get my oldest son, who is a good artist, to draw a picture of the house this summer on a sign that we can put up out by the road.

-- Ivy in NW AR (balch84@cox-internet.com), February 27, 2002.

Hubby named our place, 'Wanna-be-farm'. He say's he's just a wanna-be- farmer,and the farm isn't big enough to be a 'real' farm, hence the name.

-- Sherry (Calfarm@msn.com), March 01, 2002.

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